Also, I have acquired a new appreciation for AO3’s download function, which is great at facilitating archiving.
And I have acquired a new opposite-of-appreciation for fanfiction.net, which goes so far the other direction that you are *not allowed to copy text from a fic*. I did a couple of small fics by *going into the page source*, finding the fic *there*, pasting it into a LibreOffice document, and *manually replacing the br tags with line breaks* (there was probably some way to automate that last bit). Then I hit upon the solution of simply saving the entire page as an HTML file, which seems to have worked. Good: I was not looking forward to manually inserting line breaks in Chanson de Geste.
is what I personally use to copy/paste things from sites that don’t want me to. It doesn’t work on all sites, but it works on a lot of them.
Ooh, this looks promising. Thank you!
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#reply via reblog #the more you know #oh look an update #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers
Bugs Bunny could singlehandedly defeat Thanos by dressing up as a TSA agent and setting up a metal detector in the middle of the battlefield saying that all metal objects must be removed if you want to pass on through now stick around for my 2,000 word essay on just how effectively he would convince The Mad Titan to comply
“For shame, doc! Dontcha know we got other folks waiting?”
(Thanos looks behind him and sees dozens of Bugs Bunnies dressed as angry yelling travelers with huge bags of luggage. Thanos rubs his neck guiltily and begins sliding off the gauntlet)
I felt compelled
Nobody expected you to draw T. Hanos himself in the Looney Tunes artstyle but you absolutely fucking delivered
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#Marvel #Looney Tunes #comic #Infinity War spoilers? #(I don’t know enough about the expected knowledge base of an unspoiled fan to know whether this has any spoilers in it) #((holy crap the OP was less than two weeks ago and there’s already over 100k notes)) #if you’re wondering I’m taking my usual approach to Marvel movies for this film #which is to freely spoil myself and probably never bother to watch the movie because I’m not good at video #eventually reaching a level of cultural osmosis where I can participate in fandom discussions almost as well as someone who actually saw it #(I *did* see The Avengers but years after the fact and only because Mom wanted to use it for Family Bonding Time) #(and I’ve seen Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and bits and pieces of Iron Man 1) #(but that’s about it)
They say the *next* stage of brain development is getting *less* susceptible to peer pressure. What the hell is *that* gonna be like?
I have some guesses, I think. Maybe you get so used to full-grown impulse control that you start taking it for granted, go so long without ever being at real risk of snapping that you start projecting your non-violence onto others the same way you once projected your violence onto them. “What will happen if I make this person angry” calculates (as it always did) as “what would I do if I were them and someone made me angry”, and since “I would hurt them” is no longer a serious possibility, you stop taking that possibility seriously in others (at least by default), and so the stakes are lower.
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#oh look an original post #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #violence cw #abuse cw?
Is it just me, or does adolescent brain development feel from the inside like getting better at *fear*?
They told me I’d get better impulse control in my early twenties, and in a way I suppose I did. But what it felt like was that I’d finally cultivated fear to the point that it could consistently outweigh anger, that even in the midst of rage I was still paralysed by the terror of what people would do to me if I lashed out.
They told me I’d get more susceptible to peer pressure in my teens, and in a way I suppose I did. But what it felt like was an acute awareness that literally anyone could hurt me (deprive me of resources, beat me up, potentially in extreme cases kill me) if crossed; I would not be able to stop them until it was too late, and in many cases I would not be able to stop them at all. There’s no such thing as peer pressure because there’s no such thing as *peers*: everyone is potentially dangerous, and everyone must be appeased.
(Ever since puberty, I have never had a relationship† between equals. The closest I’ve come is relationships where each person believes themself to be of inferior rank to the other.
I used to worry what it said about me that my closest friendships are always with people who are scared of me, but perhaps it’s just that *I’m* going to be scared of *them* regardless, and so them being scared too is the only way to even things out enough.)
†in the broad sense
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#oh look an original post #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #violence cw #abuse cw?
#I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #I know this isn’t the first joke along these lines I’ve seen #it may not even be the first I’ve reblogged #but it’s still funny
